Thoughts on recent Ninth Circuit and California appellate cases from Professor Shaun Martin at the University of San Diego School of Law.

Monday, September 10, 2007

U.S. v. Garcia (9th Cir. - Aug. 10, 2007)

You don't typically see someone sentenced in the federal system to over 100 years (or "1284 months") in prison. Nor do you typically see an AUSA mislead a district court on a fairly basic principle of law -- one that's so obvious that the U.S. is forced to confess error on this point in the Court of Appeals (see footnote 1).